DNA-assisted dispersion and separation of carbon nanotubes

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 338-342

  Zheng, Ming ^a   Jagota, Anand ^a   Semke, Ellen D ^a   Diner, Bruce A ^a   McLean, Robert S ^a   Lustig, Steve R ^a   Richardson, Raymond E ^a   Tassi, Nancy G ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FREE ENERGY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SEPARATION; SOLUBILITY; SURFACES;

CARBON CRYSTALS; FLUORESCENCE SPECROSCOPY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; POLYDISPERSITY; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SONICATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASOUND;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SOLUBILITY; SONICATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0038521137     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat877     Document Type: Article

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